Jewish Holy Places

Western Wall (Kotel Ha-Ma'aravi) (Jerusalem)
The Western Wall is the most holy place accessible to the Jewish people.Read more

The Cenacle and the tomb of David (Jerusalem)
Both the cenacle and the tomb of David are located in the same building. The Franciscans bought it in 1335 and gave it its present form.Read more

Grave of Rabbi Yonatan Ben Uziel (Amuka)
Yonatan ben Uziel lived 2000 years ago. He was the greatest of all the students of Rabbi Hillel. His burial place in Amuka, near Safed, is one of the main Jewish pilgrimage sites in Israel. Read more

Safed, Zefat, Safad,Tsfat etc
Safed (Hebrew: öôú Tzfat), other English spellings Zefat, Safad, Tsfat etc., is a city located in the Upper-Galilee. It is the highest city in Israel (900m) and one of the four holy cities of the Talmud. Read more

Temple Mount - Haram ash-Sharif (Jerusalem)
For Jews it is the ancient Mount Moriah, where Abraham almost sacrificed his son Isaac, and where the First and Second Temples were built.Read more

The tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai (Meron)
The court, where the tombs of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his son Eleazar are located, was built by Abraham ben Mordechai Galante in the second half of the sixteenth century. Read more

Cave of Machpelah - Haram El-Khalil (Hebron)
Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite a field and a cave at Mamre, Cave of Machpela in Hebron, where he buried his wife Sarah.Read more

Tomb of Habakuk in Galilee Prophet Habakuk (c. 600 BCE) descended from Jewish exiles in Babylon.The 8th book of the Bible bears his nameRead more

The Abuhav Synagogue (Safed)The Abuhav Synagogue is named after Rabbi Yitzchak (Isaac) Abuhav of Portugal.Read more

The Yosef Caro Synagogue (Safed)The Caro synagogue is named after Rabbi Joseph Caro, scholar and Kabbalist, author of the "Shulchan Aruch" (the codification of Jewish laws).Read more

Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue (Safed)The Ashkenazi Ha’Ari Synagogue was built in the sixteenth century on the northern edge of the Sephardic neighborhood.Read more